Editing Collaboration (section)

=== Manhattan Project ===
The [[Manhattan Project]] was a collaborative project during [[World War II]] among the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] that developed the first [[Nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]]. It was a collaborative effort by the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Canada]].

The value of this project as an influence on organized collaboration is attributed to [[Vannevar Bush]]. In early 1940, Bush lobbied for the creation of the [[National Defense Research Committee]]. Frustrated by previous bureaucratic failures in implementing technology in World War I, Bush sought to organize the scientific power of the United States for greater success.<ref name="bennis_biederman" />

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a [[nuclear testing|test detonation]] of a [[plutonium]] implosion bomb on July 16 (the [[Trinity test]]) near [[Alamogordo, New Mexico]]; an [[enriched uranium]] bomb code-named "[[Little Boy]]" on August 6 over [[Hiroshima]], Japan; and a second [[plutonium]] bomb, code-named "[[Fat Man]]" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.